Stop funding China’s pathogen research

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Despite COVID-19 causing over a million deaths, we still do not know how the pandemic began. Thanks to the systematic destruction of evidence by the Chinese Communist Party, we may never know for sure.

What we do know is that the People’s Liberation Army has made “achieving biological dominance” a high priority and that part of that dominance includes the ability to create pathogens that are “more toxic, more contagious, and more resistant.” We also know the Wuhan lab from which COVID-19 might have escaped “has collaborated on publications and secret projects with China’s military,” the U.S. State Department says.

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